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Americas Professional Services Practice Leader
Mercuri UrvalAmericas Professional Services Practice Leader
May. 2023Houston, Texas, United StatesI am a headhunter. I deliver what I sell. Global Leadership Acquisition and Advisory firm founded in 1967 in Sweden and now covering more than 60 countries. As part of a team of 3 responsible for relaunching and expanding the Americas region. Execute Executive searches. Completed internal certifications around MU proprietary psychometric, cognitive and behavioral assessments in addition to predictive analysis. Clients developed in the consulting, technology, semiconductor, oil & gas, chemicals, manufacturing, packaging, renewables, sustainability, construction, outsourcing and life sciences industries.
Managing Director
Vantedge SearchManaging Director
Jan. 2021 - Apr. 2023New Jersey, United StatesPeople, Proficiency, Pedigree & Passion. Co-founded by industry practitioners, Vantedge Search brings a wealth of proven Global Executive Search and Talent Advisory expertise to the market. With specialized Search Consultants, Research Associates and Sourcing Experts spread across US, Canada, UK, and India, we have the right team to handle our client’s most complex & challenging search assignments. We identify & recommend unique talent to our clients who are best suited to lead the way forward. We accomplish this through aggressive pursuit of the passive, untapped talent pool. Responsible for launching, building and leading an executive search firm with US and India based delivery. Grew the team to 31. Trained and developed off campus hires in search excellence – Boolean, Google X-Ray, Social Media and other tools utilized to quickly fill open positions. Utilized strategic thinking and long-term visioning in complex contract negotiations (including our largest spend on LinkedIn), contributing to overall company growth. Our differentiation is Candidate Experience, Research, Competitive Intelligence, Talent Landscape Mapping combined with Tenacious Headhunting.
Global Head of Executive and Digital Talent Acquisition
SutherlandGlobal Head of Executive and Digital Talent Acquisition
Jan. 2019 - Nov. 2020Houston, Texas AreaGlobal provider of world class innovative, analytics-driven business solutions and services. Billion dollar, privately held, Private Equity backed company operating in 20 countries with more than 40,000 employees. From 2015 – 2020 more than 20% YoY was sustained resulting in complex, ever-changing people strategies requiring problem solving and rapid decision making with limited data. Fail fast and adjust was the roadmap. ● In addition to the previous role, responsible for building and leading the IT and Digital Talent Acquisition function. ● Secured staff for the launches of the Sutherland Design Thinking Lab and the Google Sutherland Cloud Lab. ● Monitor real time performance by implementing data analytics tools such as DOMO, PowerBI, Tableau and others to ensure KPI’s are met, professional development is executed and measured. Progressive change management ● Design and execute innovative sourcing and marketing strategies to attract, evaluate and hire qualified candidates; particularly those outside of Sutherland's legacy BPO business utilizing employer branding, messaging and events. ● Hyper-focused on diversity hiring. Created diversity initiatives such as using Textio to create job postings that are more attractive to diverse candidates. ● Served as the subject matter expert on digital and IT compensation utilizing market research inclusive of recruiting data. ● Zero dependence on post and pray recruiting processes. Trained, coached, developed and managed the team of 34 to achieve LinkedIn and email acceptance rates above 27%. ● Improved 85% hiring quality through HackerRank implementation. ● Utilized people analytics to provide insights on market and industry trends, candidate behavior, and operational excellence, leading to significant cost savings and improved time to fill. ● Responsible for planning and managing a $1.45M budget (of which $500,000+ was LinkedIn licensing)
Human Resources Business Partner
SutherlandHuman Resources Business Partner
Jan. 2019 - Nov. 2020Houston, Texas, United StatesServed as the HRBP for Digital Product Development, Analytics, Automation, Conversational AI, Agent Assist and IT Services responsible for employee relations, labor law, people development, succession planning, immigration and retention.
Global Head of Executive Talent Acquisition
SutherlandGlobal Head of Executive Talent Acquisition
Mar. 2016 - Jan. 2019Delivered exceptional performance in developing and executing recruiting strategies, while focusing on achieving desired business requirements. Developed and managed a team across APAC, NA, EMEA, and India for research driven talent acquisition process improvement and implementation. ● Saved $5M for the organization within 14 months by eliminating external search firm dependence and creating lean but innovative talent acquisition strategies. Built a retained executive search model internally inclusive of research, sourcing, headhunting and behavioral interviewing. ● Train talented staff and cross-functional teams to enhance productivity and efficiency working in a fast-paced environment with 20% YoY business growth. ● Created a Candidate Experience unlike anything previously done. Measured candidate experience through regular surveys resulting in an average NPS of 83. Created a pre-boarding program for countries with notice periods exceeding 60 days resulting in reduction of offer dropouts. ● Built a domain driven, customer-centric approach to managing internal stakeholders Team members responsible to truly learn the business area they are supporting and lead by influence. Hiring Manager NPS averages 65. Supported the Chief Revenue Officer, Chief People Officer, CFO, COO, CTO and CIO organizational planning. ● Experience with HRIS, ATS and BI platforms such as iCIMS, Taleo, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Fusion, DOMO and PeopleSoft. ● Sourced talent across various industries including Media & Entertainment, Travel & Hospitality, Hi-Tech, Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Mortgage, Retail, Consumer Products and Government ● Drove selection and hiring for the corporate functions across US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, Bulgaria, UK, UAE, India and the Philippines. ● Created competitive intelligence landscape maps to implement talent mapping across geographies and functions of commonly hired positions as well as the future workforce.
Executive Recruiter
SutherlandExecutive Recruiter
Jul. 2015 - Mar. 2016As the first Executive TA person hired within Sutherland was responsible for business results achieved through the development and implementation of Executive recruiting strategies within a corporate environment. • Responsible for end-to-end, full lifecycle recruiting processes across multiple geographies. • Exclusively filled Director, VP, SVP and EVP roles. • More than $2,000,000 in search firm fees were saved across the first 14 months of joining as an individual contributor.
Managing Director
BraxtonCooper Inc.Managing Director
Jan. 2006 - Jul. 2015Houston, Texas AreaFounded this retained search firm and played integral role in creation of the company with offices in Los Angeles, Houston, and Charlotte. Oversee all operations for company that supports clients in both North America and Europe across multiple industries including: strategy and operations consulting, oil and gas, utilities, media and entertainment, pharma, biotech, and manufacturing. Work in cooperation with executive clientele with experience in big-bet industries. - Design and implement innovative strategies for sourcing and selection of global talent to fill executive, professional, and technical roles supporting the full lifecycle of recruiting and onboarding. - Provide exceptional client service with individual focus by developing value propositions and Career Cases through identification of selling points. Ensure client’s branding strategies remain relevant in the employee marketplace to attract the highest quality candidates. - Develop reporting specific to each client that incorporates data on potential candidates to help clients navigate through misinformation and make adjustments to address marketplace perceptions. - Develop innovative tools such as Talent Landscape Maps to help specific clients gain awareness of their competitor’s talent so they can better identify potential gaps in their own organizations. - Develop balanced scorecards for each position thus enabling leadership to more effectively participate in behavior based interviewing methods. - Invited to join IRC Global Executive Search Partners as ninth office in the US due to firm’s outstanding reputation. Elected as the Global Professional Services Practice Leader. - Supported The Walt Disney Company in the transformation of their Talent Acquisition team. - Strong overall business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to quickly grasp business issues within the business strategy.

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